Questions tagged [term-disambiguation]
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Dealing with ambiguity of the terms publish vs. deploy
DevOps terminology sometimes originates in products as introduced by their authors.
As a result, there are some standard actions described by ambigous terms. In mixed teams and large heterogeneous environments we need to agree on terms to…
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What is, or could be the formal and/or officially established definion of a "stage"?
Many of us use this term in daily business quite intuitively: "build stage", "test stage" and used long before the rise of DevOps.
But is there a formal and/or well-established definition of this term?
Additional question: Who and where used it…
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Can we talk about "reproducible builds" when working with interpreted languages?
This is a vocabulary question. I know the concept of reproducible build as the guarantee we can build software from the sources on a different host or at a different time, but producing an end-product identical at the byte level each time.
But I'm…
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Are microservices "cloud-ish medium-lived services"?
According to https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slides/cc15_mcguire.pdf p21-23, Kevin McGuire of New Relics classifies the containers in three categories:
VM-like with a lifetime > 1000h
"Cloud-ish" with a lifetime between 24…
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Provisioning meaning
Provisioning is the process of setting up IT infrastructure. It can
also refer to the steps required to manage access to data and
resources, and make them available to users and systems.
Provisioning is not the same thing as configuration, but they…
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